第121回：Moon over Wano

Check out that moon over Wano. With just a little over a week to the Fire Festival, that means the festival might occur on the night of a full moon! I wonder what this means for our mink friends…

Kyoshiro’s actions here seem to be supporting the will of the Shogun but I’m not so sure about that. Notice how he glances at the Kozuki pamphlet, what’s that look in his crafty eyes? Disdain or…expectation? What’s more, when he asked Komurasaki if she was ‘prepared’ that sounded less like a threat and more like a confirmation of her determination. I wonder about these two…

Looking into the background in this panel we can see Mom’s 5th daughter Effilee with a pawn releasing some balloons. Why do I get the feeling they aren’t just doing that for fun? Do those balloons carry some kind of beacon or message to track down Big Mom?

Ooh! And here’s another octopus fellow, maybe even the same one who helped the Strawhats up into Wano! It seems to be connected to the carp which pull ship into Wano so if King ever gets distracted, the Big Mom Pirates may be able to try climbing the waterfall again!

There have been many guesses as to the identity of this mysterious prisoner and although we don’t have the full story just quite yet, there has been a name revealed, Kawamatsu! Is this the samurai who’s been mysteriously pictured throughout flashbacks? And is it possibly the same character seen here with Dogstorm and Catviper? The evidence that suggests so is certainly stacking up!

Oh man! Do NOT mess with Rayleigh’s food! Did you notice that he fully loaded that normal stick of his with Colors of Armament after Luffy ruined his dinner!? Rayleigh could stand to take some of his own advice about keeping one’s cool ^o^